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Committee backs Super Bowl 50 impact fund amendment; limits initial $100,000 seed to street artists and permittees
Summary
The committee approved an amendment to create a Super Bowl 50 Impact Fund and to appropriate $100,000 to it, prioritizing street artists and certain DPW permittees with grants capped at $600 each; the full Board will consider the ordinances without committee recommendation.
Supervisor Aaron Peskin and Supervisor Jane Kim introduced two measures to (1) establish a Super Bowl 50 Impact Fund and (2) appropriate $100,000 from the general reserve to seed the fund for FY2015–16. Peskin described temporary displacements resulting from Super Bowl City operations—setup, event days and takedown totaling about 22 days in some zones—and said the purpose is to make “a modicum of compensation” available to small street artists and certain permittees who were unable to operate.
Peskin offered an amendment (subsection D) to narrow administration rules for the first $100,000: eligible street artists licensed through the Arts Commission who document loss tied to covered events would be eligible for awards up to…
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